Perhaps you’ve seen these before, but here are comments included in a Mere Orthodoxy post from a letter written by JRR Tolkien criticizing CS Lewis’s views on marriage. The letter was never sent, apparently.
Perhaps you’ve seen these before, but here are comments included in a Mere Orthodoxy post from a letter written by JRR Tolkien criticizing CS Lewis’s views on marriage. The letter was never sent, apparently.
James: That link is no good; it references a local file on your system.
But Lewis did not argue that monogamous marriage was only good for Christians, just that Christians could not expect the world to share their view, and that it was wrong to use the law as a club to woo them to your viewpoint. His example of Islam and alcohol consumption is the perfect corollary. Drunkenness IS bad for all men, but we do not outlaw it. We tried in America, and the cure was worse than the disease. Even if we COULD legally ban divorce, it wouldn’t change people’s behavior. You would simply have more adultery and fornication. The law is no substitute for a transformed life.